Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures (Zoom)

Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures(based on the most recent exhibition at MoMA in 2020)

This interesting and surprisingly relevant exhibition focuses on Dorothea Lange’s photography and its relationship to language – writing found in the environment, but also captions or descriptions added in various publications, to “extend, buttress, illuminate, and explain the photograph”. After an early career as portrait photographer Lange dedicated her life to documenting life during the Great Depression, travelling through the country for the Farm Security Administration to capture the lives of impoverished share croppers, documenting life inside the Japanese Incarceration Camps, in booming coast towns during WWII, she very carefully composed her thought provoking images while always dedicated to being truthful. She created many iconic images, most famously the Migrant Mother.

Zoom link will be emailed to registrants.